Carl Öhman
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Government; Faculty
- E-mail:
- carl.ohman@statsvet.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Östra Ågatan 19
753 22 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
Carl Öhman earned his PhD in 2020 from the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the politics and ethics of AI and has been covered by media outlets such as the New York Times, BBC, and Time Magazine. He has been named the UK’s #1 early-career researcher in the arts and humanities by Scopus and, in 2025, Uppsala University's 'most promising' young researcher (Oscar Prize). His book The Afterlife of Data, was listed by Nature, The Economist, and The Guardian as one of 2024's top-10 books.
Publications
Selection of publications
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What if Facebook goes down?: Ethical and legal considerations for the demise of big tech
Part of Internet Policy Review, 2020
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Are the dead taking over Facebook?: A Big Data approach to the future of death online
Part of Big Data and Society, 2019
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Introducing the pervert’s dilemma: A contribution to the critique of Deepfake Pornography
Part of Ethics and Information Technology, p. 133-140, 2019
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An ethical framework for the digital afterlife industry
Part of Nature Human Bahavior, p. 318-320, 2018
Recent publications
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Part of The Economic Record, p. 154-155, 2026
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Wherever there is AI there is memory: AI as the agency of the (synthesized) past
Part of MEMORY, MIND & MEDIA, 2025
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The Quantum Panopticon: A Theory of Surveillance for the Quantum Era
Part of Minds and Machines, 2025
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Part of Minds and Machines, 2025
- DOI for How ChatGPT Changed the Media's Narratives on AI: A Semi-automated Narrative Analysis Through Frame Semantics
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We are Building Gods: AI as the Anthropomorphised Authority of the Past
Part of Minds and Machines, 2024
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Articles in journal
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Wherever there is AI there is memory: AI as the agency of the (synthesized) past
Part of MEMORY, MIND & MEDIA, 2025
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The Quantum Panopticon: A Theory of Surveillance for the Quantum Era
Part of Minds and Machines, 2025
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Part of Minds and Machines, 2025
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We are Building Gods: AI as the Anthropomorphised Authority of the Past
Part of Minds and Machines, 2024
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The identification game: deepfakes and the epistemic limits of identity
Part of Synthese, 2022
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The case for a digital world heritage label
Part of Information & Culture, p. 82-95, 2022
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What if Facebook goes down?: Ethical and legal considerations for the demise of big tech
Part of Internet Policy Review, 2020
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A theory of temporal telepresence: Reconsidering the digital time collapse
Part of Time & Society, p. 1061-1081, 2020
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Prayer-Bots and Religious Worship on Twitter: A Call for a Wider Research Agenda
Part of Minds and Machines, p. 331-338, 2019
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Are the dead taking over Facebook?: A Big Data approach to the future of death online
Part of Big Data and Society, 2019
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Introducing the pervert’s dilemma: A contribution to the critique of Deepfake Pornography
Part of Ethics and Information Technology, p. 133-140, 2019
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An ethical framework for the digital afterlife industry
Part of Nature Human Bahavior, p. 318-320, 2018
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Part of Minds and Machines, p. 639-662, 2017
- DOI for The political economy of death in the age of information: A critical approach to the digital afterlife industry
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Chapters in book
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How to critique the GDPR: When data protection is turned against the working class
Part of Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence, p. 435-444, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023